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Theatres

Poland

The Wrocław Opera is an opera company and opera house in
Wrocław, Poland. The opera house was opened in 1841 and up to 1945 was known as
the Breslau Opera. The current repertoire of the Opera House includes Kot w
butach (Puss in Boots) by Bogdan Pawłowski and Matka czarnoskrzydłych snów by
Hanna Kulenty. The list of current productions is growing by the year. Several
productions were rewarded both in Poland and Abroad. Wroclaw Opera is one of
the leading Opera companies in Europe.

Portugal

The Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Portuguese pronunciation:
(National Theatre of Saint Charles) is an opera house in Lisbon, Portugal. It
was opened on July 30, 1793 by Queen Maria I as a replacement for the Tejo Opera
House, which was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The theatre is
located in the historical center of Lisbon, in the Chiado district. Since 2010,
the artistic director of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos is Martin André.
Since 2008, the principal conductor of the Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa is
Julia Jones.

Casa da Música (English: House of Music) is a major concert
hall space in Porto, Portugal which houses the cultural institution of the same
name with its three orchestras Orquestra Nacional do Porto, Orquestra Barroca
and Remix Ensemble. It was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas with
Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Arup-AFA, and was built as part of
Porto's project for European Culture Capital in 2001 but was only finished in
the first half of 2005 and immediately became an icon in the city. The Building
engineers were Arup (London) together with Afassociados (Porto). Inside Outside
(Petra Blaisse) designed the large 13 curtains, ranging from 22mx15m to 65mx8m,
and the gold leaf wood grain pattern on the large auditorium.